How can I get a response on a specific bz report concerning sane-backends?

[Mike Cloaked]

Two weeks ago I reported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527137

Since this could well affect quite a few people with scanners of various
flavours I though that some response to the report might have been seen on the
above link by now. Am I barking up the wrong tree or is my diagnosis that there
is a packaging bug correct?

How does one know if the maintainer concerned has seen the report, and if there
is no action following up on the bz, how does one ask for a second maintainer to
have a look at it?

Thanks.